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Are we ever going to see a CentOS store?
by Preston Crawford 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

So I was sending some money off to Firefox today for a hat. And I was thinking, I haven't donated money to CentOS yet. It's just sitting here, running. It's acting as a web server, mail server, mail filter, spam filter, samba and print server and many other things. More importantly, it's done its job so consistently for so long that sometimes I basically forget about it. I run Yum once in a while and otherwise I leave it. For so many years I upgraded every 6 months. Red Hat 6 through 7.1, I think. Mandrake 8 to 9. SuSE 8 to 9.1. Fedora Core 1 and 2. Finally I stumbled on CentOS and I haven't touched my OS substantially in quite some time. So I donated finally today. Just a little. Hopefully more later. But I figured while I was at it I'd say a couple things. #1 - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I don't think that gets said enough. But to those of you who make this happen, thank you. You almost take it for granted sometimes when you have a distro that is so stable and consistent that you barely have to think about it. Your efforts, while sometimes forgotten because of how consistent they are, aren't forgotten. And thanks to Red Hat as well. :) #2 - We need some CentOS schwag. Shirts, hats, maybe a place where someone like me would happily put down the money for some printed documentation and an official DVD. I know all of that stuff comes with a cost and a price, but I'd love to see it happen someday and would gladly snap up some CentOS gear. Great distro. Keep up the excellent work. Preston

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RE: [CentOS] VMWare
by Mark Schoonover 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

The only time you'll need to upgrade the vm_mod module is if it won't load into a newer kernel. When you run vmware-config.pl, it'll tell you so and prompt you to create a new module. Pretty painless. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel@home.tzo.org] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:53 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare I just upgraded my kernel via yum and I didn't need to make any changes for vmware to continue to work optimally. Anthony On 7/22/06, Guillermo Garron < guillermo.fedora(a)gmail.com <mailto:guillermo.fedora@gmail.com> > wrote: > I'm not familiar with that package. VMware is very very easy to install, > though so I'm not sure where you're getting it's hard to install. It's > simply an RPM file to install. It runs through a configuration utility, > where you answer a few questions (usually the defaults are good), and > then you start the console with one command. > > Compared to other packages, VMware does a much better job at > communicating with your hardware. It's more true virtualization compared > to other software just tricking the system. Each virtual machine is > isolated from the other, so you should be careful about other packages > in regards to issues like this. > You were rigth it is really easy to install, and has no comparation with QEMU it is like being in an old VW and then in a Bugatty!! :) I have only one concern it had to compile a module for my kernel, so when I update my linux Kernel with yum, i will loose my VMWare ? I think yum is not take care of that :) regards, Guillermo. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>

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Error on update
by Sam Drinkard 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Just did an update with yum, and got this error when running the transaction check. Transaction Check Error: package freetype-2.1.9-1.2.2.el4.rf (which is newer than freetype-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4) is already installed Yum then quit. What do I need to do to fix this error? This is a first for me. x86-64 machine. Thanks....... Sam

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VMWare
by Guillermo Garron 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi, I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 Mbytes RAM. first what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? thanks, Guillermo Garron

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Using XFS filesystem (on install)
by carlopmart 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi all, Can I format harddisk partitions with xfs filesystem during installation process using Centos4.3 Server image?? Which params I need to pass to anaconda installer?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram
by William M. Fennell 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi folks, I am having issues installing Centos 4.3 X86-64 on a Sun Fire X2100(AMD chip). It works with 2GB of ram just not 4 GB. It works with any combo of the 4 1GB chips I have. It only works with 2GB not 4GB any ideas? Thanks, Bill

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why is this machine using swap space?
by Larry Vaden 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux rgds/ldv

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

William L. Maltby wrote: > > Well, I tried you suggestion to my previous email, and they didn't work. > Now, I'm sure it's because I'm not experienced in sendmail. Me too! But I did some reading, looked at things,... and do have an extensive *general* background. So there's probably some other piece of the puzzle that's not right or is different. There's lots of experienced folks here though. I bet if you posted in the form of some background, a starting description of the pertinent components in your setup, snippets of logs, etc. they would jump in and help. At least, that's been my observation. Fridays may be the exception though. I'll also try and help, within my limits. Bill, Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. Using Krugle didn't turn up much... Mark

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libdbi-ruby now?
by Steve Bergman 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Ruby 1.8.4 from the c4 testing repo is doing fine so far. But now I need libdbi-ruby. I don't see that in any of my usual repos or in c4 testing and it does not seem to be rubygem'able. Any pointers? Thanks, Steve

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:02 -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote: > >> Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me >> about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring >> any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much >> longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, >> I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard >> to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. >> Using Krugle didn't turn up much... > > The reason no one else has written that script is that the stock > sendmail 'just works' as shipped for sending mail. And if you have > something odd locally, it is usually a one-line edit in sendmail.mc to > accommodate it. Well, it may just work for some, but not for others - I'm sure I'm not alone in sendmail not 'just working'. Using sendmail/postfix/qmail to send simple email from cronjobs is like using a jackhammer to drive finishing nails. Why go through all that hassle of sendmail and it's near daily security problems for such a simple task? My network has mixed CentOS and Gentoo systems, with the Gentoo systems not having sendmail installed. Installing sendmail on those systems would take far more time then coming up with a simple script to do what I need. Take into account running another binary, it's just another service taking up resources that doesn't have to be used. Mark

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